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to control Scab as well on the lower branches as the upper ones was observed in an 

 orchard where the standard, dilute formula was delivered through an 8-nozzle broom 

 from a tower on the tank. There, primary Scab spots were nuiaerous on both surfaces 

 of the leaves, there being only a trace of early season infection on the spur 

 leaves, 



8. There is some evidence, although no definite proof, that UX concentrations 

 of sulfur or ferbam have not given as long protection between applications as the 

 standard, dilute concentrations. If this is really tme, might it not be due to 

 poorer redistribution of the kl spray deposit during wet periods that follov/ the 

 application than the amount of redistribution in the dilute spray deposit? 



— 0. C. Boyd 

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IJOVEIviENT OF TUE 19h9 APPLE CROP 



At the meeting of the National Apple Institute in Swampscott last June, 

 Dr. John D, Black, Agricultural Economist of Plarvard University made this significant 

 comment vdth respect to the movement of last year's apple crop: 



"I am particularly impressed here, while listening to the accounts of 

 activities of your various grower associations, T/ith their efforts in making apple 

 producers consumer-conscious. You who produce have got to become more consumer- 

 minded, market-minded, as you haven't been in the past. It has been a typical 

 attitude of all farmers that ""v/e'll grow the stuff j it's up to the market to take 

 it." Your ordeal this past season contained some great lessons. One is that it 

 makes you put more thought on promotion in connection with your product, I was 

 particularly interested in seeing what happened to your big apple crop last fall 

 and onward. Something happened that makes an outside observer sit up and take 

 notice. Something was going on so that you came out better than it seemed in the 

 cards you could. I'm interested in the way you got the purveyors, the stores, to 

 viork vdth you. Doubtless, this was one big part of it. I'd like to see a study 

 project on this, to find out and describe how you got that big crop moved through 

 the channels of trade as you did. Your state and area associations, vrorking 

 together like this, are in position to do a wonderful job along the lines being 

 discussed today. Remember, you don't make your living grov;ing the crop. You make 

 it, or don't, from vrtiat happens aftenmrd." 



ViJhat actually happened in the case of the Massachusetts Mcintosh crop last 

 year compared vdth other years and a standard desirable rate of movement is shovm 

 by the chart prepared by Professor F. E. Cole, Extension Specialist in Fruit and 

 Vegetable Marketing, 



Both Dr. Black's comments and Professor Cole's chart are a compliment to 

 Massachusetts growers and their ability to meet what seemed to be a tough problem 

 a year ago. The good job done with the 19h9 crop should inspire confidence that an 

 equally good job can be done vdth the 19^0 crop, 



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 Orchard Trees Through State Pool . Edvrard D. Johnson, State Horticulturist for 

 Maine, reports that: Maine orchardists have received 7,659 fruit trees through 

 the Apple Tree Pool operated by the Maine Department of Agriculture . The pool 

 included 6,U8li apple trees, of which total almost half, 3,10U, vrere of the 

 Mcintosh variety. Cortland was the second most popular variety with 1,.^39 

 trees. The Maine Apple Tree Pool supplies orcharc Ists v<-ho require ^0 or more 

 trees and apply to the department some months in advance of planting each year, 



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